Fall Out From GAF: Over 700 ‘NPP Backdoor’ Military Recruits Stranded

Information reaching Modernghana reveals that over 700 recruits into the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) are reportedly stranded on a bizarre suspicious waiting list whose shortlisting remained shocking to official recruiting officers in the army.

Sources
closed to the Military, alleged that these questionable recruits hardly meet up
with military recruitment standard and some are believed to be political party
vigilante members and supporters being smuggled through into the ranks of the
army without going through the regular recruitment process.

Our
sources say the situation has left the Military in more traumatized than
confusion as recruiting officers find themselves at their wits end about what
to do with the unsolicited 700 macho men now in their hands.

Unconfirmed
information pointed out that the recruits might have been smuggled on to the
list by high powered persons within the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

These
recruits were apparently party boys who were roped on to the list in a move by
the ruling party to create jobs for the boys.

For
the purpose of inflating the Armed Forces with members of the disband vigilante
boys, powerful elements within the current government administration are said
to have planted one Col. Baidoo Acheampong at the recruitment office of the
Military.

Unfortunately,
Col. Acheampong and his hatchet job were soon discovered by the Military High
Command which got him removed.

But
his removal was short-lived, as NPP party bigwigs fought tooth and nail to get
Col. Acheampong reinstated amidst threats by disappointed foot-soldiers.

This
portal can confirm that it is on the heels of this that a waiting list of
recruits has strangely been saddled with more than 700 recruits whose
recruitment is shocking to Military recruiters.

Sources
are putting the development down to the ruling NPP party who attempt to
infiltrate an enlistment network managed by functional executives of the ruling
party.

The
cartel apparently smuggled the names of the stranded recruits on to the
shortlist through their allies at the top of the military hierarchy even though
they had not gone through due processes and medical check-ups to determine
their fitness as is the case for new recruits into the army.

Currently,
the National Peace Council is leading a mediation between the ruling NPP and
the main opposition NDC, to disband Invisible forces, Delta forces and the
Hawks respectively.

The
case of political party boys being sneaked into the security agencies was
highlighted in December 2018 when heavily armed and masked members of a
so-called National Security Anti-Terrorism squad stormed an ongoing by-election
and unleashed mayhem by shooting and injuring dozens of civilians with powerful
assault rifles.

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